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brucefryer

"If it hasn't been done, then it's worth doing."

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Designing for Privacy & Security : All your base are belong to us

Last week I had a lively discussion with an education expert talking about privacy and security. This resulted after interpretations of FERPA resulted in universities selling student directories / email addresses to spammers third party marketing organizations. (just because they... Continue reading

Posted Apr 5, 2014 at Fryer's Blog in the Mountains

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Living in the HealthCare IT Bubble

Reality is a harsh mistress. With the advances in Electronic Health Records, patient portals and records transport ala Direct X.509, my peers and I see a very bright future for healthcare in the U.S. and talk about all the great... Continue reading

Posted Mar 24, 2014 at Fryer's Blog in the Mountains

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Changing the Language of Healthcare from Cost to Outcomes and Productivity

The US healthcare system has been warped by reimbursements for care. In Sharin's piece "The End of Hospital Cost Shifting", he talks about the impact on hospitals of the Medicare cutting reimbursements to hospitals based on work done by Austin... Continue reading

Posted Jan 12, 2014 at Fryer's Blog in the Mountains

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It's time to retire CPT® in health care

CPT (Current Procedural Terminology) is a medical billing coding system created by the American Medical Association (AMA) with the sole purpose of charging insurance companies for health care services and putting royalty money in the AMA's pocket. It's an artifact... Continue reading

Posted Dec 30, 2013 at Fryer's Blog in the Mountains

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Encyrption is easy: Key management is hard

Encryption basically has two use cases: 1. Moving information from point A to point B and not letting anyone else be able to see it during transit. 2. Making sure that when the information is at rest (data, email, etc.)... Continue reading

Posted Oct 20, 2013 at Fryer's Blog in the Mountains

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Saving Healthcare in the US: Focus on Efficiency, Efficacy and Motivation

I won't bore you with the statistics on how the US spends more and gets less than any other industrial nation in the world and consumed about 17.9 percent of GDP last year. Instead I want to focus on the... Continue reading

Posted Aug 15, 2013 at Fryer's Blog in the Mountains

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Script Relief aka National Prescription Savings Network aka RX Relief aka The HealthCare Alliance

And it is owned and run by Michael R Loeb (nice 18,000 sq ft house) of Loeb Enterprises. Will you save money vs insurance on prescriptions? Maybe. Will your name and prescription data be sold to the pharmaceutical companies. Absolutely. Continue reading

Posted Jul 23, 2013 at Fryer's Blog in the Mountains

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HealthIT 2.0: Time for the Hospitalist?

Imagine taking care of 15 patients a day. And you've never met them before. And coordinating care among three shifts of nurses, labs and specialists. That is the plight of the hospitalist. HealthIT 1.0 has failed them. Patient histories from... Continue reading

Posted Jun 18, 2013 at Fryer's Blog in the Mountains

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Why I started programming

A friend of mine asked me this week about how I started out as a developer. Did I go to school for it? The short answer is no. I taught myself initially because it helped me do my job better.... Continue reading

Posted Apr 25, 2013 at Fryer's Blog in the Mountains

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Jump Starting to Double your Sales in a Tech Company

Twice this year I've talked to two companies who have the same challenge: After a decade of getting to $20-$50M in sales , senior management has been tasked by the board to "GET BIG NOW". I have noticed the same... Continue reading

Posted Apr 15, 2013 at Fryer's Blog in the Mountains

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Patient Portals and the Identity Crisis

Meaningful use stage II is requiring a certain percentage of patients to be able to view their patient health information. At HIMSS in New Orleans there was a lot of conversation about this. And many vendors talking about their solutions.... Continue reading

Posted Mar 20, 2013 at Fryer's Blog in the Mountains

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Embedding a PowerPoint or Keynote Slide Deck Presentation in a website

A pdf just doesn't cut it in today's websites. Try looking at them on your smartphone. But how do you handle those slide decks? I've seen plugins etc. but that was just too much work. Turns out Keynote on Mac... Continue reading

Posted Feb 17, 2013 at Fryer's Blog in the Mountains

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Lower Back Injury: Physical Therapy not Surgery or X-Rays or MRI

Just before Thanksgiving I was floored by sciatica. I started taking a lot of ibuprofen to reduce the inflammation. By Friday I was able to get off the floor and go see the doctor who prescribed prednisone to further calm... Continue reading

Posted Feb 3, 2013 at Fryer's Blog in the Mountains

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Comcast dumping Analog, charging $2 per TV to hook up after 3

Just got a notice from Comcast that they are dropping all analog signals. I'm not surprised. There is only so much bandwidth and I suspect Comcast is increasing their 3D line up. So goodbye analog. If you have an old(er)... Continue reading

Posted Jan 25, 2013 at Fryer's Blog in the Mountains

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The four R's to new product success for a startup

While working with a new startup, it is easy to get lost in the weeds. The first major milestone is cash flow break-even. This is when income meets expenses. It's math, when (number of customers x contribution margin) = expenses.... Continue reading

Posted Dec 5, 2012 at Fryer's Blog in the Mountains

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Security Lapse at Delta in SLC

Yesterday our plane broke and since I would miss my connection they kindly rebooked me on a flight this morning. It was a very long night and I missed the flight. 30 minutes later I tried to rebook with an... Continue reading

Posted Nov 13, 2012 at Fryer's Blog in the Mountains

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Delta's New Website not tested, causing problems

Delta put up a new website and the IT folks did a lousy job testing. On Mountain Lion with Firefox Delta won't print boarding passes and won't let you book a flight. On my Air it said I had an... Continue reading

Posted Nov 12, 2012 at Fryer's Blog in the Mountains

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B2B Startup Success: Start with the long tail

You have just developed this great product / service for businesses. But you need customers. Too often we focus on those "big deals" and gear our messages to the top: "We will make / save you money". The problem is... Continue reading

Posted Oct 18, 2012 at Fryer's Blog in the Mountains

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Phreesia - Not patient friendly - Two thumbs down

I'm all for electronic checkin for patients at clinics, but I wonder sometimes if the vendors actually use their own products. Take Phreesia for instance. Hand the patient a tablet with a stylus and voila! all their information is electronically... Continue reading

Posted Sep 25, 2012 at Fryer's Blog in the Mountains

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Setting Up Hospice Care: A Checklist for the Family

I am sorry you are reading this. But your job now is to do what's best for the comfort and care of your family member. And this is going to consume your life for the weeks ahead. The first choice... Continue reading

Posted Jul 18, 2012 at Fryer's Blog in the Mountains

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Scanlife QR Code Reader for LG Rumor Touch - Finding and Installing

The LG Rumor Touch is showing up on the "pay as you go" phone services from Virgin. Originally Scanlife supported this device from getscanlife.com. But now their autodetection identifies the phone as an LG LN510 but sends you to an... Continue reading

Posted Jul 2, 2012 at Fryer's Blog in the Mountains

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Facebook Connect Cyber Stalking Creeps Me Out

This morning I pulled up a local website to see the 4th of July activies. Imagine my surprise when on the home page I see the smiling face of a Facebook friend of mine. Creepy. Privacy is a contextual thing.... Continue reading

Posted Jun 27, 2012 at Fryer's Blog in the Mountains

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Vonage - Google Voice - Skype

I was getting tired of paying Vonage $35 / month (after taxes) for a phone line. Plus I found I liked using Skype for making calls because I could do it hands free. I also have a Google Voice number... Continue reading

Posted May 10, 2012 at Fryer's Blog in the Mountains

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Why pushing patient data is better than pulling

I've always been leery of building systems that hold all of the patient data and depending on access controls to allow external parties to pull them down. Utah had a data breach impacting up to 780,000 people. All because a... Continue reading

Posted Apr 10, 2012 at Fryer's Blog in the Mountains

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HIMSS12 - Aventura - location based personas for hospitals

With over 1,000 vendors at the 37,000 attendee HIMSS12, I admit getting a wee bit glassy eyed. Then a friend showed me Aventura. It's a virtual desktop for use in hospitals. Yet this is not just another EMR, it is... Continue reading

Posted Feb 27, 2012 at Fryer's Blog in the Mountains

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